With all that said, just pulling into the Spechts parking lot after the winding rural road to get there is enough to feel every ounce of that history. The building is iconic, a corrugated metal roof painted as the Texas state flag, the type of building so Texan that were it in a movie, you’d call it a little too on the nose. The general store heritage is obvious, accentuated by the classic gas station pumps that flank the building. Envisioning a family rolling up on their wagon in 1903 to buy a pound of sugar is not difficult.
Inside, the theme continues, with original antiques in seemingly every corner of the space. And because of the legit history of the building, those antiques don’t feel like kitschy knock offs purchased to make the space feel authentic, rather the space itself is authentic and that makes the vibe feel organic, not staged. Permanent wooden booths provide the perfect seating option for the food served here, though it’s perhaps unlikely that the building’s founding family envisioned spinach salad being sold on site.
Past an amazing wooden post office mailbox array, the path leads to the back patio, where an impressive stretch of concrete flooring and wooden picnic tables leads to an equally impressive stage at the rear of the outside space. The layout sprawls under, around, next to, behind the roof connected to the patio, with seating, signage, games, kids and acres of land stretching well past the boundaries of the concrete itself.
